the East, speaks of Mary's role in similar experiences of contact with divine glory, of divinization. St Gregory Palamas insisted that our divinization is possible and real, and that while remaining creatures [...] achieve this through grace. Then, considering the mystery of the Church as a communion of deification, St Gregory Palamas explained that Mary transmits to us this contact with divine life, that transfigures

consecrated in 1163 by Pope Alexander III. The abbey adjoining the churches of Our Lady and of St Peter and St Paul became itself an important intellectual center. The whole complex was burned by the English [...] 1830, after being sold as "national property." Fortunately, the two churches have survived: St Peter and St Paul is now a parish church and Our Lady of Bethlehem is also preserved and known as one of the

spiritual guides to imitate in their journey with Jesus. St Paul instructed the Corinthians, “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ” (1 Cor 11:1). If St Paul is worthy of imitation, how much more, then, is [...] embedded in our spirituality? For all the Maronite saints, Mary was at the centre of their spirituality. St Charbel, the angelic hermit and priest, loved Our Lady deeply. As a child, he would go missing for [...] the beloved child of the immaculate mother?” We see a similar devotion in the life of the holy nun, St Rafqa. Losing her mother at a young age, Our Lady became Rafqa’s mother and guide in all things. She

. Due to the efforts of St Dominic and his Rosary, the heretical sect was defeated and the first chapel ever dedicated to the Rosary was established at St James Church where St Dominic had been praying

France, the first shrine dedicated to St. Anne dates back to the 11th century. It is the ancient cathedral of Apt in the Vaucluse department, where the relics of St. Anne are kept. In Brittany, the veneration [...] which contains a Judean tradition dating back to the first half of the second century. The devotion to St. Anne developed first in the East, in parallel to the veneration of the Virgin Mary, especially in

(1921-2003) Lazarist priest (Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, founded by St Vincent de Paul and established at St Lazare in Paris), of Lebanese origin. In Judaisme, christianisme et islam étude

for the exegetes of Israel, took on new significance at the time of the Blessed Virgin, after Herod 1st had been made King of Judea, bringing to an end the Jewish Hasmonean dynasty. From then on, the Jews [...] of Rome and remained so until the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. When Octavius confirmed Herod 1st as the King of Judea, Samaria, Idumea and Galilee, also offering him the Golan plateau and the cities [...] Cleopatra, an earthquake struck Jerusalem and claimed 10,000 victims. With the accession of Herod 1st, authority passed to the Romans and the sign presaging the coming of the Messiah was fulfilled because

meet her in St Peter’s.” After this I found myself again in the choir. The rest of the story is equally amazing. Giovanna Rizzani, whose birth Padre Pio had seen on January 18, 1905, went to St Peter's Basilica [...] She went there and was quite surprised to recognize that the Capuchin who had heard her confession in St Peter's was Padre Pio himself! The holy monk surprised her even more when he told her that he had witnessed

(in 1530 and 1549), Pius IV (in 1561), St Pius V (Bull Superna provisione from February 18, 1566), St Pius X in 1910, Benedict XV in 1916, and Pius XII in 1950. St John of the Cross, while close to death

consecration to Mary, the act of contrition as a group, confession, praying at the tombs of St. Jacinta and St. Francisco (the young shepherds who saw the Virgin in 1917 with their cousin Sister Lucia) [...] the chapel of the apparitions for the intentions entrusted to us by the parishioners of our church, St. Raphael. This last action left a deep impression on me, even though it was hard to ignore our painful